Oct. 24, 2024 (EIRNS)—The 16th BRICS Summit drew to a close today in Kazan, Russia, with the announcement that the nine current members of the BRICS had agreed to invite 13 countries to join as new “partner states”—representing nearly 1 billion human beings! The BRICS grouping now represents over 4.6 billion people—57% of the world’s population: the Global Majority, to be sure.